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Red Hat 8.0 Stability issues...

Hi All,
I am wondering if there is anyone else having stabilty issues with Red Hat 8.0? I am, it seems related to X and possibly nvidia but there is *nothing* in any log i look at. which is very frustrating. It looks up X and then when I try to shut it down remotely it stops responding completely. For right now i guess i will go back to rh 7.3 or debain, but i would like to know if any one sees this issue so we can notify the folks at Red Hat.

This kernel is identical to my old kernel, the difference being gcc 3.2.

Re:Red Hat 8.0 Stability issues...

Hmm, odd. I have been using for all but three days since it came out, RH 8.0 on my work box. The one thing that irritates me, is the slowness on a p2-266 288 MB ram. I have a 6 gig maxtor in it right now.

Just to give you an idea of how slow I am right now -- I can no longer compile, run VMWare and do something useful. I am seriously debating putting slack on here or something.

Oh and BTW, you may have won an fvwm user over -- compiling it RIGHT NOW ;D

Re:Red Hat 8.0 Stability issues...

Well after reading a few rather popular forums like Slashdot, it seems that its actually VMWare. It hates RH8 for some reason. It will slow the system down horrendously and have royal problems with power management for its VMs. So for shits and giggles, I disabled VMWarre's services and it sped up alot. Of course until I get Access running under Linux, I need it though....

Re:Red Hat 8.0 Stability issues...

hi knight,
oh yea! i am using lots 'o' usb devices, scanner, joystick, mouse, printer - you name it (well not really, i just named 'em all...). but i also compiled my own kernel (2.4.19 w/ pre-empt patch) and still had the same problems.i am guessing the nvidia module is crap with gcc 3.2

Re:Red Hat 8.0 Stability issues...

Well you could listen to Coral Sea (a very smart man I might add using drake9) or drop back to 7.3. Seems that kernel Killler was having the same probs with 8.0 over at forums.high-on-linux.net . Its not nvidia related with 3.2 because I have no probs at all with the nvidia drivers on my drake 9 box (which is 3.2 of course).........Could be USB, i also read some stuff about RH and USB, but you said you compiled your own kernel too, hmm........Drake 9 it is!

Re:Red Hat 8.0 Stability issues...

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I am, it seems related to X and possibly nvidia but there is *nothing* in any log i look at.
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I have no problem with my nVidia 32MB TNT2 on my Gateway machine, just a matter of quality of the graphic with the shipped nVidia driver from Redhat, so what I did was to upgrade the nVidia driver by recompile the nVidia source, install it, make minor and easy configurations, then my Tuxracer is running smoothly. Yet I am not Linux techie...